New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors

Re:New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors by baybal2 on Sunday December 02, 2018 @11:10AM (#18582870)

Vacuum dielectric strength is 20 megavolts per metre.

Diamond is almost perfect though, at 20 gigavolts per metre, and that only given if the diamond has at least some microscopic imperfections.

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Re:New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors by analognoise on Sunday December 02, 2018 @04:20PM (#18584618)

I think those might be reversed...

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Re:New Metal-Air Transistor Replaces Semiconductors by blattimwind on Sunday December 02, 2018 @06:36PM (#18585291)

IIRC diamonds are good isolators because their crystal structure is both very close to perfect (few defects) and because their crystal lattice has all electrons tied up.

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